Protein Linked to Spoken Language

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A single protein may have helped shape the emergence of spoken language

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A protein variant found only in humans may have helped shape the emergence of spoken language.

The study found that when they put this exclusively human variant of NOVA1 protein into mice, it altered their vocalizations as they called to each other.

It is not found in either Neanderthals or Denisovans , archaic humans that our ancestors interbred with.

Darnell: "Our discovery could have clinical relevance in many ways, ranging from developmental disorders to neurodegenerative disease" He says an ancestral population of modern humans in Africa evolved the human variant I197V, which then became dominant.

"One can imagine how such changes in vocalization could have a profound impact on evolution," he says.

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